Dinesen Out Of Africa Quotes

#1. Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.

Isak Dinesen

#2. 'Out of Africa,' Dinesen's second book, is a love story, though not the one portrayed by Streep and Redford in the film. The memoir is about Dinesen's love of East Africa - the cultures, the landscapes, the animals. The feeling that saturates the book is reverence.

Joanna Scott

#3. The sky both exists and doesn't exist. It has substance and at the same time doesn't. And we merely accept that vast expanse and drink it in.

Haruki Murakami

#4. You will find rest on Sabbath day for your soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Alexander Smith

#6. Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated, and the Natives neither confounded the persons nor divided the substance.

Isak Dinesen

#7. I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me. 'Tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the living and the dead.

William Wordsworth

#8. Disappointment is part of parenthood, Jasper. The trick is learnin' to love your kids even when they disappoint you.

Barry Lyga